Becoming a fully rounded professional

The developing physician--becoming a professional.

From the Departments of Internal Medicine and Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School and the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System — both in Ann Arbor (D.T.S.); and the Office of the Dean, Student Affairs, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center — both in San Francisco (M.P.). Address reprint requ...

Professional socialization: students becoming nurses.

Usually colleges are evaluated by the quality of the knowledge and technical training offered to the students. Little attention is given to the acquisition of the values, behaviors and attitudes necessary to assume their professional role. This exploratory study aims to increase understanding of the professional socialization process that occurs at nursing schools and the results obtained throu...

A case study of teachers’ professional learning: Becoming a community of professional learning or not?

This paper describes a school’s participation in a project designed to support critical reflection of teachers’ beliefs about best practice in early childhood education, and how these beliefs and practices intersected with shifting policies and trends in the broader early childhood field. The “Professional Learning” Project (PL project), was conducted in collaboration with a local university. A...

Becoming a Professional Engineering Educator: A New Role for a New Era

Becoming Teachers, Becoming Researchers: a Case Study

This paper presents a case study of a group in initial primary teacher education students becoming researchers of their peers’ course experiences of school – university links. The connection between university teacher preparation programmes and work in school is a well-researched area with suggestions that there is a marked disconnect between the two. The project took an emergent approach to le...